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What I Learned From Magazines This Week

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In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.

Digging

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I came to a field where, scattered around, were quite a few men digging holes

Dinner with Someone Who Fucks Someone Else

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say no / to me / and devastate me / and I will take it / as god's will / to drown me / in a vat / of my own / entrails

Meaning of Life # 18

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To hell with the moon!

The Model & The Artist

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I advertised in the local paper for a model.

100 Words

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She thinks this is the place she dreamed

King Street Station

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Despite the newly bright bricks and the working clock, Cassie couldn't help but take a deep breath before entering King Street Station. She had always tried to hold her breath when her family cut through it on the way to Mariners games but had never succeeded, not…

1940 What I Wanted

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But this ache wouldn't leave me.

Cat summoned for jury duty in Boston

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Cat summoned for jury duty in Boston Wayward hawk loose inside Library of Congress finally caught (God only knows what happened to the doves) Vacaville roof collapse blamed on bird droppings These are a few of my favorite things Piano mysterio

Tomcat

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And, if you look real close, you see there’s a bullet hole next to his left ear. A stray one went past his head and straight through Santa’s heart.

Veined and Green

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Where we’ve penned heart shaped question marks, seeds sprouting bowed heads, a congregation of confused supplicants.

Bubble Rap Blues

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"The Chinese don't have no Mardy Grah, bitch."

The Savage (K2)

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Rises monstrous out of the Baltoro GlacierPlaying poker with oxygen levelsPlays leap frog with embolisms.Malice and vanity join forces somurder guns the air even beforethe Death Zone. Down suits, bold and cockyregisters the climber's ambitions. The Serac , a…

One Sick, Two Sick, Red Sick, Blue Sick

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I found a diseased fish / wedged between some boulders near the pier

Inventorying

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Me sad because of results set forth in my life story.

Osama Retires

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Osama couldn’t see any reason he shouldn’t retire. No way he could top BP Oil in the Gulf or Pacific Gas & Electric in San Bruno.

The Secret Life

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The silver urn of ashes inscribed with his unknown name.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 48

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Ben was not a happy musician.

Physics 101

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The cellar smelled like an aroused muskrat.

CARTOGRAPHY

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Your brother is not really blind.

The Sentence

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Two women are escorted to the desert, where they are shackled to the ground. Who are they, what have the done, and will they survive?

When Birds Do Not Fly

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The last chick in the nest

Hidden

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She is alone in the ocean

Lovers

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The lawyer is having a party the next weekend.... He's celebrating because he won a court case to have his alimony reduced.

Secrets

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She buried her secrets in a bowl of brownie mix....

Cut-offs

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The sauce is you

Mercury Unbound - 5

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As the music concludes, I'm finally in control of my emotions . . .

Coming From Alabama

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In the state that the stars fell on, Love and I stumbled upon bits of God where he forgot sky and moon, too.

Beasts of the Talent Show

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Finally my daughter emerges from behind the silver curtain, riding piggy-back on a gigantic proboscis monkey. She's preoccupied by his nose, and wrings it like a wet dishrag with both hands. If it hurts he's not showing it.

A Poem for Chris Toll

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we all die from the bottom up